As per my previous post, Blogger is terminating FTP support, and as a result I am terminating this blog in its current form. This will be the last post to it.

I may or may not create a new blog in some form or another eventually. In the meantime, please follow me on Twitter; if you're not a Twitter user, then you can subscribe to the RSS feed of my Twitter posts.

Blogger is terminating support for FTP toward the end of May. I don't like any of their non-FTP options, so I'm looking around for a new solution. I prefer the model where the data lives locally and just static HTML is uploaded to the server via FTP, but I'm not wed to that. Writing my own is still on the table. Suggestions are welcome.

In the meantime this blog may languish a little, but I have been posting to Twitter more lately.

Mission accomplished: I wrote a new blog post every day in the month of February.

I love taking photos, but I hate traveling with a camera. You end up looking at everything as a photo opportunity, and in effect watching your vacation through the viewfinder of the camera instead of fully participating in it.

So it is, I've found, with trying to blog every day. You end up considering every thought and every experience through the filter of, "Can I blog about this?" As a result, you aren't fully participating in those experiences; to some degree, you become a spectator. It's an interesting way to feel, but largely not a positive one; while I'm happy to have done this, I don't expect to continue or repeat the effort. I can only assume that many journalists and writers feel like this all the time, and for that I feel bad for them.

Furthermore, the pressure to post frequently conflicts with the desire to write longer and more deeply considered work. I find that I've generated a small backlog of things that I'd like to write about, but that will require more than a day's investment to produce. Hopefully I'll get to these in the coming months.

The other day my 7-year-old saw me working on my blog, and informed me, "Daddy, 'blog' is not a word. 'Weblog' is a word, but 'blog' isn't."
She has some authority on the subject. A while back my beloved keyboard died, and I clipped off the cord and gave it to her to play with. Now, whenever we have guests over, she brings down that keyboard and "makes them a web site," interviewing them and banging away on the keyboard.

One of the problems with my blog(s) is that historically I have posted sporadically, and in general not often enough. To try to get in the habit of doing so, I'm going to try an experiment: I'm going to try and make a post every day in the month of February.

You may also notice that I've redesigned: I've moved the blog back to be the front page of joeganley.com, and simplified the design quite a bit. It's a little too simple (and a little gross under the hood), but I'm working on my own blogging system which will require a complete reimplementation of the blog design, so I didn't want to spend too much time fiddling with Blogger templates right now.